Call of Duty®: Black Ops™ Delivers Engaging Online Experience that Connects Millions of Players Everyday
Indicators such as social media, time spent online playing and retail sell through of Call of Duty: Black Ops are just a few of the signs pointing to an online phenomenon that took hold with the game's debut last month. The number of registered players exceeds the populations of such countries as
The total number of registered Call of Duty: Black Ops players:
- Is greater than the audiences that watched
Jay Leno ,David Letterman ,Jimmy Fallon ,Jimmy Kimmel , Conan O'Brien andCraig Ferguson in the U.S. for the entire week ofDecember 6, 2010 , combined. - Exceeds the audience for the series finale of
ABC 's Lost. - Trumps the average viewership for the 2010
Major League Baseball World Series. - Exceeds the combined audited circulation numbers for
Entertainment Weekly , Rolling Stone, Playboy, GQ, Maxim, Newsweek, Time,ESPN The Magazine and Sports Illustrated. - Would be the third largest state in the U.S.
Since its launch on
- Have played more than 600 million hours, or the equivalent of more than 68,000 years.
- Have turned out in numbers that could fill the 83 largest stadiums in the world, every day.
- Have spent an average of 87 minutes per day playing online, exceeding the 55 minute average that the average user spends on Facebook.
- Have made Call of Duty: Black Ops a top-five trending topic on Twitter, putting it on par with The Grammy Awards,
Diego Maradona , The Chilean Miner's Rescue, TheBoston Celtics andMel Gibson .
"Media is evolving and today the social aspects of technology are more important to the overall entertainment experience than ever before," said
"The
Call of Duty: Black Ops is rated "M" (Mature) by the ESRB for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence and Language. For additional information about the game, visit www.callofduty.com/blackops.
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Activision maintains operations in the U.S.,
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